rhetoric - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

The oldest surviving Latin text on this subject is addressed to Gaius Herennius and was a popular medieval textbook for this subject along with Cicero’s De Inventione. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this discipline that relied on pathos, logos, and ethos and formed the trivium along with logic and grammar.

ANSWER: rhetoric [accept oratory]

[10h] The most extensive ancient work on rhetoric, Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria, was presumed lost until this humanist found a copy in a Swiss monastery. This Renaissance book hunter also rediscovered De Rerum Natura.

ANSWER: Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini [or Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini]

[10m] Following Aristotle, this Latin writer emphasized the supremacy of logic in his Overview of the Study of Rhetoric. An accusation by Cyprianus led to Theodoric the Great’s execution of this author of De musica.

ANSWER: Boethius [or Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	10.00	88%	13%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	100%	88%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	10	0	0	10
UCSD B	UCLA A	10	0	0	10
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA B	10	0	0	10
UCSD A	UC Irvine	10	0	0	10
UCSD C	Arizona State	10	0	0	10
Stanford A	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
Central Florida B	Central Florida C	10	0	10	20
Florida B	Florida A	10	0	10	20
Florida C	Central Florida A	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Pittsburgh	10	0	10	20
Ohio State B	Michigan C	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Ohio State A	10	0	0	10
Ohio State C	Michigan State	10	0	0	10
James Madison B	Duke	10	0	0	10
James Madison A	NC State B	0	0	0	0
Liberty A	Virginia Tech B	10	0	0	10
North Carolina A	Liberty B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina B	10	0	10	20
VCU	North Carolina C	10	0	0	10
Virginia	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
William and Mary	NC State A	10	0	0	10
Northwestern B	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	Chicago C	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame A	Chicago D	10	0	10	20
Chicago E	Northwestern D	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois B	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame B	Northwestern C	10	0	0	10
Indiana A	Purdue A	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Illinois C	10	0	10	20
MIT	Bowdoin A	10	10	10	30
Harvard A	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30
Brandeis B	Brandeis A	10	0	10	20
Brown	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	10	20
Harvard B	Dartmouth A	10	0	0	10
Dartmouth B	Yale	10	0	10	20
Iowa State	Carleton College	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	Claremont	10	0	10	20
Minnesota A	Washington A	10	0	0	10
Missouri B	Washington B	10	0	0	10
Texas A&M A	Texas A	10	0	0	10
Texas B	Murray State A	10	0	0	10
Bruin	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Alabama B	10	0	0	10
Mississipi State	Alabama A	10	0	0	10
Sewanee	WashU A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Louisville B	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh A	Cardiff	10	10	10	30
Montpellier	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
Southampton A	Warwick A	10	0	0	10
Manchester	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Catholic	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	John Jay	10	0	10	20
Rutgers A	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	0	10
Maryland B	Swarthmore	10	0	0	10
NYU A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	Rutgers B	10	0	0	10
Georgetown	Vassar	10	0	10	20
Penn State	Binghamton B	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	Cornell C	10	0	0	10
RIT	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
Cornell A	Rochester	10	0	10	20
Birmingham	Oxford C	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Southampton B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	10	0	0	10
Louisville A	WashU B	10	0	0	10